Hey @MeTheGuy we are always working to improve Etcher and hopefully in the future will reach the point where we can provide an option to format a stick back to something readable by Windows. However I disagree with the gaslighting suggestion, we are only ever being transparent and sharing honestly what’s happening with ideas to help. Etcher simply puts the provided image file on the disk - if the image file creates partitions that can’t be read by Windows, you end up in the situation you were in. This isn’t anyone’s fault, just a truth that Windows can’t read all types of disk structure that exist in the world.
The fact you were able to recover the stick proves it wasn’t damaged and I’m glad you were able to use it in Windows again. As I say, hopefully we can improve the experience in the future but we also can’t control (and nor would we want to) what images contain and what can be flashed.